Luna's Notebook - Writing.Com

Sep 7, 2023 at 12:29pm

It seems like my free portfolio limit has reached and I don't have the amount to pay for membership so I might not be posting from now on and will read instead, I guess. Might be my last post though and here's the couplet I wanted to share with you all.

I never dwell in sorrow's grasp,
I only seek joy in life's clasp.

And thank you everyone that liked my poems, I love this community.

-Luna

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Dave Ryan

Sep 7, 2023 at 12:47pm

If there's some older stuff that you could remove from your portfolio to free up space but don't want to lose completely, you can export a copy to your pc as either text or html.

Schnujo is Late to Lannister

Sep 7, 2023 at 1:30pm

Also, you can earn the GPs needed for a membership by doing reviews while you read.

I'm running "WdC 2023 Birthday Review Raffle - CLOSED"

right now. (Feel free to join--check the rules to ensure your reviews will qualify.

Reach out if you have questions.) On that page, I have two dropnotes that should be of value to you.

The Ideas for Review Suggestions/Corrections dropnote will help you find some things to not only help others you are reviewing, but since you are new, I'd be willing to bet there's a few things there that will help you as well.

Check out that dropnote and you can see some of the easier (and less easier) things you can suggest for helping people during your reviews. If you provide actually helpful reviews, you can sometimes even earn Review Credits. These are GPs (gift points--the WdC version of money) that are given to you for an excellent review. I recently received a review that I paid 50,000 to the reviewer for. Unfortunately, she set it to private so I can't share it, but it's an AMAZING review and SO SUPER HELPFUL!

I even asked her if she could be my book coach!

The How to Earn Extra GPs dropnote shows ways and places to get more for your review.

One participant did a review that she got paid for through 5 different sources!

Now, that took planning, organizing, and probably being a member of some reviewing groups, but still, she managed it!

Even without all that trouble, you can still earn more GPs with a few tips and links I provide.

Plus, there are some groups on here who may provide you with a free Upgraded membership for a limited time if you show you are a participating and valuable member of WdC.

Check out the Community tab on the left and see what sorts of things you can participate in without adding to your port. There are forums where you can chat, reviewing groups (who give you GPs if you affiliate your review with them), and assorted other things.

You can also socialize on the Community Newsfeed. Click Newsfeed, then along the top of your Personal Newsfeed, click View the Community Newsfeed. There's many more activities going on, especially today and even this month for the b'day. "Angel-Witch Bingo! "

and "a Mod-o-Poly Celebration!"

are free and you can participate only during the b'day week (ending today), but there are plenty more. Once people get to seeing you around, commenting, Liking, socializing, someone may gift you a membership.

Luna

Sep 5, 2023 at 5:27am

How to enter in contests? Thanks for the replies in advance 🥰❤️

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Schnujo is Late to Lannister

Sep 5, 2023 at 6:54am

Welcome to WdC, Luna!

You have to find one first. Several places have them listed, but try going to the Community tab on the left, then pick Contests.

You can also find them on the Community Newsfeed, but more on that in a minute.

Read the instructions. Every contest has somewhat different instructions. But for each, you'll have to submit an entry in some way. Generally, they want you to submit an entry in bitem format, though many also allow entry formats, but that's if you have a blog/book item on here, which since you're new, I'm assuming you don't yet. It's often created when you need more space in your portfolio and instead of creating a new item in your port for every contest entry, you create it in your book/blog item and post a link to that 'page' for the judges. You need ML code to do either.

To create any code on WdC, you use the curly braces located above the square brackets on your keyboard. You also need your item's ID number. It's the 7 digits located below the title. Don't use any spaces in ML code. We have two main ways to link to an item you've created--item and bitem (big item). Most contests want a bitem entry. Item links are more for conversational use. Using my own challenge (where the challenge is to enter a contest every month for a year), I'll demonstrate the code.

{item:2109126} = "The Contest Challenge"

{bitem:2109126}

FORUM

The Contest Challenge

(13+)
Join by entering a contest a month for 12 months--Win Badges! Catching up is allowed!
#2109126 by Schnujo is Late to Lannister

As for the Community Newsfeed, be sure to check that out! When you click Newsfeed, you'll be taken to your Personal Newsfeed by default. Here you only see official WdC stuff and stuff by people whose plus sign you've clicked. You're missing out on so much!

The Community Newsfeed has what EVERYONE is posting (within your rating limit), not your filtered results on your Personal Newsfeed.

To get to the Community Newsfeed, go to your Personal Newsfeed (click Newsfeed). Then along the top you'll see View the Community Newsfeed. Click that. When the Community Newsfeed pops up, scroll, Like, comment, and start making friends!

And when you find a person you want to keep up with, be sure to double click their plus sign until you see the megaphone to become of fan of theirs.

Good luck! Have fun! And welcome to WdC!

Schnujo is Late to Lannister

Sep 5, 2023 at 6:55am

BTW, this is the WdC birthday week so September 1-7 there's a lot more going on than normal.